Posts tagged grievance process
Graduate program shifts fellowship classifications, sparking contention in historic unionization effort
September 29, 2026 // The doctoral program in behavioral and social health sciences previously designated many first-year students as fellows — a nonunionized class that does not have access to the same grievance processes that unionized graduate employees have. Under current University policy, fellows are not considered employees, since the University views their funding as not contingent on their working for Brown. As a result, they are not covered by GLO’s main contract. But the SPH officials determined that their fellows had similar work requirements to other students in the BSHS program — including research assistants — who are included in the Graduate Labor Organization’s contract, BHSS program director Kate Carey said.
HGSU-UAW Strike Becomes Longest in Union History as Harvard Holds Firm at Bargaining Table
May 28, 2026 // The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers plans to picket through Commencement after its 27th bargaining session with Harvard ended Thursday without a contract, pushing the walkout into its 31st day — the longest strike in the union’s history. In an email sent two days before Thursday’s session, HGSU-UAW told the University it would consider a membership vote to end the strike if Harvard moved on five core issues: paid immigration leave, an agency shop, a grievance process for harassment and discrimination, paid medical leave, and pay parity between teaching fellows and research assistants.